Weekend Edition.

Hey gang, things are going well here in Seattle. I am happy to announce that I am employed and just finished my first week of work. I have been hired on as a contractor at a early stage startup called Cloudant. I am actually the first employee/contractor (again, I was the first at my last job too). The startup is based in Boston but one of the founders is here in Seattle. It’s a good group and I am working with some really smart people. I am also excited about the company and what we are doing. We are building a distributed database system.

From wikipedia:
A distributed database is a database that is under the control of a central database management system (DBMS) in which storage devices are not all attached to a common CPU. It may be stored in multiple computers located in the same physical location, or may be dispersed over a network of interconnected computers.

As for other things going on, I have been riding more lately and getting back into shape. Erin started working out too. Also, regarding the wedding photos sorry for the wait I am waiting to hear back from Tosh on it. I’ll post ‘em as soon as I have ‘em.

Hope everyone is doing well in Belleville, Murphysboro, Chicago and the greater Columbus area. Louisville too!

While you are out playing on the internets go check out Dan Bischoff’s photos from his volunteer work in Rwanda and photo’s from Mike Lanyon and Erin Smith’s trip to Egypt and Israel (you might have met them at the wedding).